Emission of photon echoes in a strongly scattering medium

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15236-15243

  Beaudoux, F ^a   Ferrier, A ^a   Guillot Noel O ^a   Chaneliere T ^b   Le Gouet J L ^b   Goldner, Ph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHOTONS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ATOMIC COHERENCE; BULK MATERIALS; COHERENT PROPAGATION; MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT; PHOTON ECHOES; RARE EARTH DOPED; SCATTERING MEDIA; SCATTERING MEDIUM; THREE-PULSE PHOTON ECHO; TIME DOMAIN;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTON; POWDER; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTONS; POWDERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOLVENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79961087460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015236     Document Type: Article

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